There's several use cases for calling into ostree itself to do
mirroring, instead of using bare rsync. For example, it's a bit more
efficient as it doesn't require syncing the objects/ directory.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728351
For the local repository on the system, it's not the usual case to
have the complete compose history. Rather than erroring out, provide
a bit more friendly message.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731538
In the case of running ostree as non-root on a regular filesystem (not
tmpfs which doesn't support immutable), we should just silently do
nothing if we encounter EPERM. Cache the result to avoid spam in
strace.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728006
We weren't installing the headers, but at the moment all symbols
starting with ostree_ were being exported. Fix that by prefixing
non-static symbols with '_'.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731369
Finally, fsync to ensure all entries are on disk, unless disabled.
We support disabling this for cases like server-side buildroot
construction where we don't need to be robust against power loss
The previous S_IMMUTABLE commit broke ostree-remount; / is now not
actually writable. All we really wanted to know though was whether it
was *mounted* writable, so check that via statvfs() which is cleaner
anyways (i.e. not via access() which kernel people hate).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728006
On some storage configurations, fsync() can be extremely expensive.
Developers and users with slow hard drives may want the ability to opt
for speed over safety.
Furthermore, many production servers have UPS and stable kernels, and
the risk of not fsync'ing in that scenario is fairly low. These users
should also be able to opt out.
This prevents people from creating new directories there and expecting
them to be persisted. The OSTree model has all local state to be in
/etc and /var.
This introduces a compile-time dependency on libe2fsprogs.
We're only doing this for the root directory at the moment.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728006
If fetching GPG-signed commits over plain HTTP, a MitM attacker can
fill up the drive of targets by simply returning an enormous stream
for the commit object.
Related to this, an attacker can also cause OSTree to perform large
memory allocations by returning enormous GVariants in the metadata.
This helps close that attack by limiting all metadata objects to 10
MiB, so the initial fetch will be truncated.
But now the attack is only slightly more difficult as the attacker
will have to return a correctly formed commit object, then return a
large stream of < 10 MiB dirmeta/dirtree objects.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725921
The current "transaction" symlink was introduced to fix issues with
interrupted pulls; normally we assume that if we have a metadata
object, we also have all objects to which it refers.
There used to be a "summary" which had all the available refs, but I
deleted it because it wasn't really used, and was still racy despite
the transaction bits.
We still want the pull process to use the transaction link, so don't
delete the APIs, just relax the restriction on object writing, and
introduce a new ostree_repo_set_ref_immediate().
They shouldn't be loaded for random test/personal repositories. Doing
so triggers another bug in that we return them from
ostree_repo_get_config() when then causes clients to write them out
permanently to disk with ostree_repo_write_config(). This caused test
suite failures.
This makes it easy to use for the case where rpm-ostree-toolbox is
injecting systemd services into the deployment root, and we don't
actually need to traverse the whole FS.
For many OS install scenarios, one runs through an installer which may
come with embedded data, and then the OS is configured post-install to
receive updates.
In this model, it'd be nice to avoid the post-install having to rewrite
the /ostree/repo/config file.
Additionally, it feels weird for admins to interact with "/ostree" -
let's make the system feel more like Unix and have our important
configuration in /etc.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729343
The option --port-file=- is most useful when the stdout of the daemon
is programatically redirected and not going to a terminal. The
flush-after-a-line behavior of stdout is specific to terminals, so
we need an explicit flush.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729609
For the static deltas work, we're using the already-extant internal
API to perform a HTTP fetch for optional data - static deltas are
optional.
Except that we didn't correctly unset the error if we were doing an
optional fetch and the data wasn't found.
James Antill
Anne LoVerso
Colin Walters
Vadim Rutkovsky
Owen W. Taylor
Cosimo Cecchi